Metal Additive Manufacturing: Advanced Processing-Structure-Property Relationships for Novel Alloys
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Metals and Alloys".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 141
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metal additive manufacturing; selective laser melting; electron beam melting; directed energy deposition; stainless steel; titanium alloys; metal matrix composites; materials characterization
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: metal additive manufacturing; alloy development in additive manufacturing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The additive manufacturing (AM) of metals is growing swiftly to match practical requirements in various industrial sectors. This increase in use is thanks to the layer-wise nature of this manufacturing method, offering flexible solutions to delicate resolution and complexity needs. Besides its design capabilities, metal AM should be able to offer responses to on-demand material needs. The latter requires processing a combination of materials to produce individual and customized compositions.
Moreover, metal AM constitutes unique melting and solidification conditions that are influenced by multiple process parameters, along with various feedstock compositions and particle size distributions. Consequently, an enhanced material design efficiency requires establishing accurate processing–structure–property relationships in metal AM processes by utilizing advanced methods, such as data-driven and computational methods. Data-driven methods are often defined as approaches that rely on utilizing test/train datasets for developing models using various algorithms. Computational methods, on the other hand, are numerical methods that often require material databases or software to perform calculations simulating the metal AM process.
For this reason, this Special Issue aims to showcase high-quality comprehensive reviews and original research studies in the field of metal additive manufacturing, with a special focus on establishing advanced processing–structure–property relationships. Work on the following topics is welcome, though works on other related themes can also be submitted:
- Smart metal additive manufacturing assisted by data-driven approaches;
- Advanced solidification mechanisms in metal AM processes;
- Thermodynamic aspects of alloy design using metal AM methods;
- Functionally graded components specifically designed for AM methods;
- Performance–microstructure relationship analysis in metallic materials process via AM.
Prof. Dr. Abdollah Saboori
Dr. Mohammad Hossein Mosallanejad
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metal additive manufacturing
- alloy development in AM
- process-property relationships in AM
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